Hello John;

You Can't do it (with this way) !

But, There is a very shortcut path for you.. If you add a printer named GENERIC TYPE (in portuguese: Genérico somente texto) You'll have what you looking for..

You need to stabilish a connection with the printer using ASCII code not GRAPHICS characters.. So the printer will be faster as you want..

HTH


Claudio

>We are printing directly to the Dos port in order to stop windows
>from intercepting the print process so that the Customers Account Statement
>will print faster.
>
>DO WHILE NOT EOF("Customer")
>
> *-- Before we print each Customers Account Statement we issue the following
>
> m.cFileName = oApp.cTempDir +"\"+ SUBSTR(SYS(2015), 3) + ".prn"
> SET SAFETY OFF
> SET PRINTER TO (m.cFileName)
> SET CONSOLE OFF
> SET PRINTER ON
>
> *-- we do the usual print commands and this is all captured to the file m.cFileName
>
> ? Customer.custadd1 AT 5
> ? Customer.custadd2 AT 5 etc etc etc
>
> *-- when we are ready to print we issue the following...
>
> SET PRINTER OFF
> SET CONSOLE ON
> SET PRINTER TO
>
> COPY FILE (m.cFileName) TO lpt1.dos
>
> ERASE (m.cFileName)
>
> SKIP +1 IN Customer
>
>ENDDO
>
>The above has been working fine except when going to a local printer and we
>want to print 100's of statements, the computer comes back with an error "Error writing to device"
>after about the 5th /6th Statement print.
>
>Does anybody know why this is causing an error.